Sentences with phrase «less than the gospel»

If we answer the question of «what is God like» with anything other than Jesus of Nazareth, we end with something less than the gospel.

His substantial but not particularly newsy remarks were probably a little less than the Gospel from on high, but the crowd lapped it up.

Not exact matches

The historical value of the Fourth Gospel is still a matter of debate and uncertainty, but as a historical document John is clearly less reliable than the others.

But the value of the book lies in the interpretation of Jesus» teaching as a whole, and this interpretation becomes more rather than less convincing if we ascribe to Jesus himself more of the Gospel content than Professor Bultmann is ready to do.

When the nature of Christ and his gospel was challenged in the church of Galatia in ways less radical than it is by the Church of Latter - day Saints, St. Paul wrote, «But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.»

pete and those guys never envisioned electronic communication that could send the gospel around the world in less than a second

But such an objection would only prove that Christians have frequently been wrongly educated, that they have unintentionally been imbued with the idea that they are allowed to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the authorities of the Church and that one has less confidence in the power of the gospel and its grace than in detailed external moral prescriptions.

Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92 f.)

Lutherans today are both more sophisticated and more liturgically minded than they were in my youth and so they are less tolerant of the sentimental nineteenth - century gospel songs that for so long dominated Protestant hymnody, but they will now and then allow those of us at mid-life or beyond to sing again the songs we grew up with but which more informed tastes tell us (and we try to tell ourselves) we should not have liked as much as we did.

No less than the other three, John's Gospel makes the task of understanding Jesus a function of grasping OT figures.

From the gospel accounts of his spoken words at the Last Supper, the unity of Catholic tradition holds that the Real Presence is divinely given in the sacrament of the Eucharist — substantively more than any lesser parallelism on our part of either seeing or hearing.

It was not so with Saint Augustine, who proposed in City of God that the story of the gospel is nothing less than the story of the world.

If you have «miracles» on the menu and prophetic utterances (i.e. competing with the psychic hotlines and HDTV), personal growth (read gospel flavoured new age narcissism) and groovy music it gives you an edge over the poor guy next door (read your competition — i.e. the small potatoes pastor who has even less than you) and you will drive a better car and be considered a man of G - d but only if you are successful (i.e. attract crowds) otherwise you are a loser whether you have a shepherd's heart or not.

As the gospel writers make clear, Jesus returned to mountain and desert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual bearings.

In the New Testament, the Pax Romana provided one key condition for the proclamation of the gospel around the Roman Empire during the time of the Apostles, in spite of the fact that the Roman imperial machine was less than Christian in conduct and policy.

Yet there was in early Christianity another path from Jesus to the church, less dramatic than the great theologian and missionary Paul, but more pervasive in the actual life of early Christians: the Gospel of Mathew!

But that they were not without grounds we may learn from passages in the rabbinic writings themselves which castigate unworthy claimants to the honored name of «Pharisee» in terms no less scathing than those of the gospels.

On the whole the Niebuhrian generation of theologians were far less involved in struggles for justice than had been either Niebuhr himself or the social gospel writers he criticized.

As a result, they stepped down from the Gospel Coalition, the movement's flagship organization, with best wishes for their future ministry but with strong hints that behind the scenes the departure had been less than amicable.

Its really a shame that people who call her Christian who know less than she does cling on to the false ideas she has and parade them as a bad witness to Christ and the Gospel.

The doctrine is found to be nothing less than the comprehensive statement of the gospel's most radical claims, and — as I have often put it — is therefore not a theological puzzle but the framework within which to deal with theological puzzles.

In these terms, we intended to affirm nothing less than «justification by grace alone because of Christ alone through faith alone,» which is the biblical Gospel.

There is one gospel, applicable to the whole of life, and to truncate it at any point is to make it into something less than the good news of salvation for which the world waits.

The gospel is not a holy box of divine propositions ranging from simple to complex; it is nothing less than the organic life of God confronting us now here, now there.

But we should be confident that if we reflect more deeply on deeper themes connected with the Gospel — creation, providence, marriage, celibacy, sin, redemption, resurrection, etc. — we will find the resources for understanding Paul's teaching on homosexuality, even though Paul himself does much less than many of us would like to explain the reasons behind the prohibition.

By classifying some sins as less forgivable than others, or some people as less worthy of our love and acceptance, we have forsaken the Gospel and abandoned the message of life in Jesus Christ, and replaced it with our own unloving, judgmental condemnation of others.

African American pastors are less likely than white pastors to believe that the gospel mandates racial reconciliation, but more likely to be actively involved in reconciliation efforts, according to a new LifeWay Research survey of 1,000 Protestant senior pastors.

«In the midst of all my joys, in less than half an hour after my soul was set at liberty, the Lord discovered to me my labor in the ministry and call to preach the gospel.

At the same time, Frei acknowledged, the gospel story clearly makes claims that are not less than historical.

Most of all the Christian might rejoice in this vision, for it may well embody a recovery of what the Christian has long since lost: that is, nothing less than the meaning of the Gospel, the meaning of Jesus» original proclamation of the triumphant dawning of the Kingdom of God.

No lesser a Christian than Martin Luther understood our predicament: Anyone, he wrote in ìOn Temporal Authority, î who tried ìto rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and the sword on the plea that all are baptized and Christian, and that, according to the gospel, there shall be among them no law or sword» or the need for either»... would be loosing the ropes and chains of the savage wild beasts and letting them bite and mangle everyone, meanwhile insisting that they were harmless, tame, and gentle creatures; but I would have the proof in my wounds.î I do not believe that Hauerwas sees America's enemies as harmless, tame, and gentle creatures.

Multiracial churches — congregations in which less than 80 percent belong to a single racial group — are supposed to demonstrate the unity of the church for the sake of the gospel.

Most Likely to Totally Nail It in Less Than 600 Words: Mason Slater at Deeper Story with «Gender and the Gospel» «So then part of faithfully proclaiming that Gospel is proclaiming to the people of God that gender, social class, and ethnicity do not define who God can use and how he can use them... So yes, I think the neo-Reformed movement is right, gender roles have everything to do with the Gospel.

For before I had reached the Gospel reading [less than halfway through the text], the priest next to me had concluded his Mass, and they called aloud to me: «Passa, passa — hurry up, hurry up.»»

Historian Philip Jenkins in Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way has gone so far as to assert that the alternative gospels tell us less about the beginnings of Christianity than about «the interest groups who seek to use them today; about the mass media, and how religion is packaged as popular culture; and... more generally, about the changing directions of contemporary American religion.»

Contrast this with John's gospel (90 - 100)- like Mark, no birth narrative, but no mere human either and we've moved up and out of the old neighbourhood... nothing less than the pre existent Word which is one with God.Now, that's a serious leap in real estate.Does this not suggest development rather than the monolithic thud of a «faith once given»?

Gospel Chivalry is less than convincing because it is difficult to know what kind of a book it is: is it a historical dissertation, an informed narrative, a meditation or a collection of short essays of various types?

But it is in no sense a biography of Confucius, much less so indeed than the gospels are of Jesus.

He considered baptism as less significant than preaching the gospel (I Cor.

So don't take the initial price you see on the site as gospel; I noticed when I plugged in various international addresses, the prices changed accordingly, often to be less than originally stated.